Reducing consumption is today's challenge. The idea is to eliminate all unnecessary purchases and borrow, buy used, or make it yourself when something apart from food absolutely must be purchased.
No consumption for a week is fairly easy for me. I've been weaning myself slowly from the shopping habit over the years. When I do shop, I'm a big fan of buying second-hand.
The only two items apart from food that I would have purchased this week are disposable diapers and garbage bags. I usually use cloth diapers on my eight-month-old girl during the day and disposables at night or when we go out. By chance, I have seven disposables left, which I will save for nighttime use, and I'll just use cloth the rest of the time. Not a big deal at all.
As for the garbage bags, we use them to line our outdoor can, which is pretty silly really. We're already using smaller bags in the kitchen. They can go straight into the garbage can without another layer of plastic, I'm sure.
So far so good, but it's early days yet!
The Feu Vert/Go Green Hudson gang is blogging on the No Impact Project website, but we'll post some of them here too.
LKS
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